UHS joins national group of academic medical centers

Published 12:56 pm, Wednesday, November 27, 2013

SAN ANTONIO — University Health System has joined a national consortium of nonprofit academic medical centers that discusses strategies and best practices in the industry.

The tax-supported Bexar County hospital system is among 120 academic medical centers and nearly 300 hospitals nationwide that are part of UHC, an organization based in Chicago that allows health care providers to share ideas on hospital performance, supply chain management, strategic research and public policy.

UHS CEO George Hernández Jr. said joining the national group's membership will help the Bexar County hospital system understand what it does well and what it can do to improve patient care.

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“Understanding the responsibility we have to the people who place their health and their lives in our hands, our top priority is to efficiently and consistently provide the very best in high-quality, patient-centered care,” Hernández said in a prepared statement.